jaclaz

There are two different issues. #1 installing a Windows 2000 on *any* USB drive - while doable - is not as easy/straightforward as a "normal" install #2 a 4k disk drive may makes matter more complicated or impossible at all IF the OP attempted to install Windows 2000 on USB "normally", it simply won't work, no matter the sector size of the device, while IF he is using one of the known methods: (links to 911cd.net may still largely be accessed via Wayback Machine) some changes may need to be implemented. IF the issue is ONLY in the NTLDR (and/or SETUPLDR.BIN) then - maybe - using the corresponding NTLDR (and/or SETUPLDR.BIN) and NTDETECT.COM may be enough to solve the issue. jaclaz

Which is WUXGA, 16:10 (8:5) and if you have a 16:10 monitor with that "native" resolution, it is just fine , while if you have a 16:9 monitor you would be better served by 1920x1080 "HD" (still given that that is the "native" resolution of the monitor). jaclaz

Pickyness challenge? You lose. I never said that 5:4 weren't available, as a matter of fact they are available even today, I said that: 1) the most common format for LCD screens was 4:3, like most (not all) CRT's 2) in the last ten years or so LCD's tend to be 16:9 or 16:10 Or, if you prefer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions In this nice graphic representation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions#/media/File:Vector_Video_Standards8.svg I can count: #12 4:3 resolutions #8 16:9 resolutions #6 16:10 (8:5) resolutions #2 5:4 resolutions [1] Now, which would be the most common ones? Possibly 4:3, then 16:9 or 16;10, as a matter of fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_display_resolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_aspect_ratio jaclaz [1] which are 1280x1024 and 2560x2048, of which the latter is rarely used

The diagonal size measuring is the same for CRT's and LCD's, what may change is the form factor, CRT's are almost invariable 4:3, as well once LCD's were 4:3 whilst (recent, let's say in the last 10 years or so) LCD's tend to be 16_9 or 16:10. BUT the technology is VERY different, unlike CRT's, LCD monitors have a "native" resolution. If you set *any* other resolution but the "native" one, the result will invariably be a (slightly) fuzzier screen, as it is the result of a transformation of the original feed. See: jaclaz

Research at NASA has however proved that comparing apples with oranges has some scientific validity, even after thousands or millions people used the analogy as an example of something impossible or improper, JFYI: https://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i3/air-1-3-apples.html All in all, notwithstanding your (and other people) efforts: I personally tend to remain possibilistic, never say never, tomorrow a breakthrough may still happen. jaclaz

and imagine here some more posts by people that didn't actually read (or did not fully understand ) the first post by FranceBB: BTW, I know a man who has a cousin who married a girl whose father runs XP in his basement . jaclaz

Well, one of the extremely rare cases where one can say "Vista was better" https://web.archive.org/web/20160420070054/http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Turn-the-touch-pointer-on-or-off There was a specific driver that enabled what you described, but how it works, (if it works) is hard to say (a lot of people complained that it - or an update to it - ruined their touchscreen experience by turning the touchscreen into a mouse/trackpad, whcih more or less is what you actually want): https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/solved-windows-10-touch-screen-acts-as-mouse/f8dd869d-993b-4f0d-9a92-def0f0f9fc68?auth=1 It is risky , however the new version is here: http://home.eeti.com.tw/drivers_Win.html jaclaz

You may contact directly covey_angel, preseli or klaus Klaus, they seemingly had a very similar problem: https://it.toolbox.com/question/the-problem-of-database-ms-access-101717 https://www.sythe.org/threads/the-problem-of-database-ms-access/ https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/forum/problem-database-ms-access-0181524/ Next post recommending a specific software coming in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... jaclaz

...and calling himself "Google" ; On the other hand - since we (this time meaning Tripredacus, you and me) are seemingly on a pickiness contest, I find more disturbing using the singular third person of the verb with Google as a subject : (and that is in the original article). I would find Google the nearest thing I can imagine to a collective name https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/09/05/agreement-over-collective-nouns/ jaclaz

Oww, come on , we don't fancy your current strictness . Alacran forgot to put the title in bold and the text in quotes, it can happen by mistake to everyone. jaclaz

As I commented on the other board where Alacran posted: http://reboot.pro/topic/21660-windows-10-activity-history/ the name of the actual Registry key invoilved is IMHO saying something: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/100341-enable-disable-collect-activity-history-windows-10-a.html PublishUserActivities jaclaz

Dibya, JFYI, only few people will understand what you probably actually meant by terrific, for some strange reasons the meaning has shifted from terrifying: http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/terrifying to (more or less) excellent or astounding: http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/terrific jaclaz

Most probably the AI governing the high level algorithm calculating the IQ sensed that you lied on your birth date and as a retaliation it lied to you[1]. Now, be nice, and do (timing 20 minutes, without distractions but also without googling) the test provided by Mensa Luxembourg: https://www.mensa.lu/en/mensa/online-iq-test.html or the "international" Mensa Workout (30 minutes): http://mensa.org/workout.php while both won't provide you with an actual IQ score, if you do very well in them, then you may consider to take the "official" test to join Mensa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International http://www.mensaindia.org/ Alternatively, find your way to take a "standard" test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification jaclaz [1] thus creating a nice, symmetrical situation,

TOTALLY UNRELATED to this thread (that is about a specific way to hopefully solve a very specific problem with a specific model of disk drive). You won' t get the help you are looking for here. We simply have NO idea whatsoever about what you are asking, Try asking for support here: http://malthus.mooo.com/index.php? or here: http://forum.hddguru.com/ jaclaz

And in any case you can use xcopy (actually XCOPY32). SERVe Kentucky Fried Chicken Hot! http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/hd/cpyhd/cpyhd2.htm The issue with the above may be what happens in case of errors, hence a more suitable little tool is ycopy: https://web.archive.org/web/20080731175052/http://www.ruahine.com:80/ycopy-file-copy-utility.html http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Ycopy.shtml jaclaz

The issue here may be that the "whole" VB6 subsystem is needed. If only mscomctl.ocx is needed, you can get it from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10019 and extract it manually with - say - 7-zip. The .ocx will probably need to be registered, using regsvr32 or regdllview (GUI): http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/registered_dll_view.html jaclaz

Exactly, but since you did that without PROPERLY documenting the changes, the end result is that half the internet points to "your" files that are nowhere to be found since you moved/renamed/deleted them. How much would have costed to put *somewhere* on your current http://windowsarchives.com/updates/ a simple page saying: AND once having given people the above warning, actually provide a §@ç#ing working link instead of sending people on a treasure hunt or worse a wild goose chase? The whole point of critique (not about you particularly, there are lots of people that do the same with their projects) is the deletion/erasure/removal of the past, something that is old (but that worked at the time) is not necessarily "worse" or - conversely - somethign that is new (even if it works) is not necessarily "better". Someone that wanted to update Windows 2000 in 2013/2014 would have used the UUROLLUP? Yes. Did it work just fine? Yes. WHY (the heck) do you want anyone to be prevented from replicating that (and not another one [1]) success? jaclaz [1] just using the UUROLLUP is much easier IMHO than going the whole way of the HFSLIP routine.

Well, Wincontig is actually "better" if you want a GUI tool (but it has also command line interface): http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm and JFYI, softonic is not the "ideal" place to download files from, Contig can (and should) be obtained from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/contig (even if not specified, the current 1.8 version works on XP just fine) jaclaz

The last error is related to UEFI booting (that may - or may not - be the same booting you have in Virtualbox, I believe the default in Virtualbox is still BIOS). A .ISO (possibly saved on a SSD accessed from Virtualbox (or Qemu, VmWare, etc,) is anyway an exceptionally fast (booting) media. A real CD or DVD is among the slowest possible (boot) media available, if the PE build is not very, very minimal, it is quite normal that it takes minutes rather than seconds. A USB stick is "midway" and there is a big difference depending on the USB standard used (both by the USB stick and the drivers of the motherboard, the BIOS/UEFI drivers used in the initial part). So, set aside the last error, everything seems normal, you want to check if you are booting in UEFI mode or in BIOS (or CSM) mode, and if there are issues on your specific motherboard booting the one or the other way, UEFI booting from USB is usualy complicated and depending on a number of firmware settings. jaclaz

Ahh, you are talking of Shadow Copies. Workstation and Server are services, while Samba and NetBios over TCP/IP are actually protocols. Most probably the services are needed, the protocols may not. jaclaz

Isn't latest v11-d20141130? http://sdfox7.com/2000/Important_EOL_Updates/ or you want specifically the very old v10c? tomasz86 has done (and it is doing) a lot of very good work for the (unfortunately very few) people that still want to run 2K, but he has a "quirk" about "reorganizing" that resolves as moving everything from here to there, from there to elsewhere, deleting and removing files, making links obsolete, etc. etc. without leaving behind proper aechives, let alone clear, univocal, complete howto's. Thank goodness, there is around Sdfox7 who keeps some bits and pieces "static" . jaclaz

Hmmm, just in case (to avoid the cutting and soldering for those less inclined to DIY) what I would have used (actually what I normally use) is a power adapter like the one here (example only): http://www.legitreviews.com/vantec-sata-ide-to-usb-3-adapter-review_131412 Inserted in an extension cord with a switch, like (again example only): https://areaillumina.com/ciabatta-multipresa-elettrica-9-posti-interuttori-bipasso-presa-multipla-vultech.html jaclaz

Hmmm, I don't understand, which "previous versions? You can disable Samba and NetBios ove TCP/IP just fine: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/2696547/how-to-detect-enable-and-disable-smbv1-smbv2-and-smbv3-in-windows-and https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143696(v=sql.90).aspx NetBios is *needed* only if you have NT or 9x/Me machines on the network: https://www.petri.com/disable_netbios_in_w2k_xp_2003 AFAIK/AFAICR it was common to disable it since Windows 2000 in enterprise setups. https://wiki.wireshark.org/NetBIOS/NBNS jaclaz

Yep, this is "normal", it will likely "take forever" but as long as you keep the disk cool you should be hopefully fine. The idea of ddrescue/dd_rescue is to reduce the stress on the disk, i.e. get first and as fast as possible as much as possible (what can be easily got) and then - later - go for the rest (this approach is "safer" as there is a risk that the disk might fail). jaclaz

Assume that "garbage collection" is just some fluffy term that was invented to confuse people. (actually it is a fluffy term invented to confuse people ). The idea is that the controller (not the OS, though it is possible to have continuous garbage collection in the OS, but it is not the case of Windows) should perform garbage collection when it has nothing better to do (i.e. the I/O is null or low). The TRIM is a pre-requisite of garbage collection, in the sense that what it does is simply that of reducing the amount of data the garbage collection routine in the SSD controllers has to deal with: http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/garbage-collection-and-trim-in-ssds-explained-an-ssd-primer/2/ There seems to be a difference between "garbage collection" (which runs when the SSD is idle or with very little activity) and "background garbage collection" that runs also when the computer is used "normally"), depending on the controller, but as said most details are either undocumented or mis-documented. I don't see why older SSD's may be better (or worse) than newer SSD's for using with XP and FAT32, as long as the device is compatible and good quality I would go for the newer ones, the early (older ones) seem to have had some reliability problem, but of course you never know. If you make a reference to a tool, post also a link to its homepage (or whatever docs it has), I have no idea what anvil's and torqx2trim are, let alone "Trimcheck 0.7". And now, just to make some fun, let's imagine that in the use you will make on that laptop (which is not a 24/7/365 server) your SSD (if you NEVER Trim it) will last 12 years while (if you regularly and periodically Trim it and check that the Trim was effetive, etc., etc. ) it will last 36 years. https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead I know that 300% is a big, big difference, but is it relevant? jaclaz